r/Eugene • u/RottenSpinach1 • Sep 19 '24

Da Nang Eugene is closing Food

From their Facebook page:

"Aye Da Nang Gang! It has been quite the journey old friends, and we appreciate you all sticking by us through thick and thin. After 10 years in the game, it’s time for us to hang up our hats. We can’t express enough gratitude for your support of this little lemonade stand over the years! We were blessed by many opportunities this business and community has given us. It was a true honor to serve you all, and we’ll miss you all. Thank you for all the lasting memories. We will continue to be open until the end of this month. This for the Eugene location, our Bend cart will be operating still. Please come use your gift cards and vibe with us one last time!"

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u/PixiePanicMarket Sep 19 '24

Bend, Portland Ashland feel like Eugene is on fire.

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u/PixiePanicMarket Sep 19 '24

Definitely feels that way. I know things are bad all over the country ATM but Eugene is especially feeling like a ghost town. My group hosts events and pop ups but there's hardly any venues or people left to host at. Wildcraft is leaving, The Comic shop moved to 5th Street most of the places around downtown are shut down or hardly ever open. Anyways I degrees just a little tangent.

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u/duck7001 Sep 19 '24

Bottom line, Eugene is not business friendly. Just look at our complete lack of hotel rooms as an example. We have very low vacancy and still cant get more hotels to open due to the permits departments red tape. This happens in countless industries in the area but the City takes no proactive approaches to make the process easier…. So businesses move.

Eugene is where mediocrity comes to thrive.

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u/PixiePanicMarket Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24

Yep I have to agree with you. Eugene is basically just a ghost hippie town at this point. There's nothing to keep folks here other than if they have family, or are lucky enough to have been grand fathered in with cheaper rent before they hiked it up to basically the same price as Portland (give or take). There's good folks here not shitting on our community but when there's no downtown in a metro that's better 200k-400k (depending on how far you consider the Eugene Springfield metro to count as) there's something wrong.

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u/duck7001 Sep 19 '24

Basically we need to start electing people who can get shit done, not Progressives who were in charge some random ass non profit that gives them zero insight into the needs of the local economy.

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u/pirawalla22 Sep 20 '24

Do people think there aren't enough hotel rooms here? Didn't we add a ton of hotel rooms before the track and field championships?

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u/duck7001 Sep 20 '24

There literally are not enough hotel rooms. Anytime there is an event, everything sells out.

Example, Ohio State fans bought all the hotel rooms in eugene the weekend of that game, over a year ago.